Show = > Q COPTICS NARROW ESCAPE Fall of Bullion Came Very Near Scuttling the Vessel t San Francisco Jan 23 While the steamship Coptic which arrived in port today was lying in Shanghai she narrowly nar-rowly escaped being sent to the bottom i by the falling of a large weight of bullion from her deck to her hold Six tiers of flour sacks piled In the hold were all that ever prevented the precious pre-cious metal from going through the vessels bottom As It was the falling mas penetrated five of the tiers Third Mate Athens and Store Keep qcav dkr > o6 t er Murphy were injured in the accident and the mate was left at Shanghai for surgical treatment |